"Event Planning and Management is the comprehensive guide for facing the new wave of live brand and customer experiences. Using real-world examples such as National Health Service's (NHS) bespoke planning model and Standon Calling (the cashless festival), this book offers a structured, practical approach to all types of events, from the initial planning to the final evaluating stages. This third edition of Event Planning and Management provides a renewed focus on virtual and hybrid events. It also provides an expansion of health and safety advisory in light of COVID-19 and anti-terrorism, as well as new models such as the Cultural Risk Assessment, and further case studies"--

This book serves as a concise yet comprehensive, step-by-step handbook for modern event management. This Essentials edition gives students contemporary lessons and insights that they can relate to. It brings theory to life through copious practical examples, illustrative diagrams and unique case studies demonstrating best practices and pitfalls. Industry experts from across APAC?s event planning sector have contributed content to key contemporary topics including sustainability, risk management, project management and strategic alignment to client goals.

The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns has seen a boom in the occurrence of virtual events. Virtual Events Management is a unique text as it looks at events from both a live event, virtual event and hybrid perspective.

Now in its Fourth Edition, this key text has been fully revised and updated and includes two new chapters on Evaluation and Impact of Events and The Future of the Events Industry. Packed with case studies, both in-text and online, it takes the reader through the whole process of events management.

This book explains the process of managing a multispecies event, as well as the larger theoretical implications of event management, using the National Championships of the Icelandic Horse as an extended study.